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Speaker 1: Nine two nine two is the text number standard text

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Speaker 1: fees applied. Go on, tell me how wrong I am.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to hear it. Now. The government's stepped in

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Speaker 1: to help small airlines. Shane Jones has given thirty million

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Speaker 1: dollars in government loans or at least they're on the

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Speaker 1: table to help keep the regional routes running. Cabinet's also

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Speaker 1: back the integration of booking systems so that regional carriers

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Speaker 1: show up when you're booking through big carriers like Auckland. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: like a New Zealand has made. Dwayne Emoni is the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Air Chathams And with us. Now, Hi Dwayne,

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Speaker 1: how good is that booking thing?

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Speaker 2: Though? Yeah, really good, really good. I think that's a

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Speaker 2: key piece. And we're actually a little way down the

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Speaker 2: track on that one already with any Zelland so we're

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Speaker 2: looking to hopefully roll out a domestic trial later this year.

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Speaker 2: So but it's expensive, I can tell you having gone

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Speaker 2: through it. So any support that we can get for

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Speaker 2: that's greatly appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Because do you have to pay for it? Like I

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Speaker 1: mean if you, But I'm shocked that we don't do

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Speaker 1: this already. You book anywhere else in the world you

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Speaker 1: get this. You know, you can go from Auckland to

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Speaker 1: wherever you need to go in the country all in

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Speaker 1: one ticket. Why doesn't it? Why don't we do it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good question. There are ways of doing it,

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Speaker 2: I guess through the likes of global distribution systems, But

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Speaker 2: again the airline has to be proactive and make that

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Speaker 2: investment themselves to be linked into those systems, and some

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Speaker 2: of the really smaller carriers you just can't justify it

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Speaker 2: because these costs are quite significant just to be a

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Speaker 2: part of the system. So I think the fact that

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Speaker 2: government's picked us up and said, well, you know, how

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Speaker 2: do we make these regional routes more viable, Well, the

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Speaker 2: best way to do that is to effectively partner them

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Speaker 2: with a much bigger airline that everyone knows about, and

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Speaker 2: then it just becomes part of their network. And then

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Speaker 2: you have the inter deals between the airlines in terms

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Speaker 2: of how the fares get broken down and who gets what.

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Speaker 2: But the key is the customer gets to go from

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Speaker 2: point A through point B to point C seamlessly and

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Speaker 2: have that full ticket protection the whole way through. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's definitely a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Totally now what about this thirty million dollars in loans?

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Speaker 1: Is this helpful? Is this what you guys are struggling with,

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Speaker 1: is getting money?

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Speaker 2: I think we need to make sure that it's helpful. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, this is something that's been lobbied on quite

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Speaker 2: a bit in the last couple of years, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I think the announcements are really positive. One. We've spent

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Speaker 2: the last number of months complaining about how tough everything

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Speaker 2: is and how we're not getting any help. So today

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Speaker 2: we're getting some help. So I think we need to

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Speaker 2: as small carriers, make the most of that. It's not

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Speaker 2: going to do everything, but it's definitely better than nothing.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant. Hey listen, Thank you so much, mate, look after

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Speaker 1: yourself and best of luck with the business that is

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Speaker 1: Dwyane Mny, the CEO of air Chatams.

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